Chef Guram Baghdoshvili

Chef At Home In Lisboa

Georgian native I'm internationally renowned chef, Chosen by the French guide Gault Millau in 2019 Best Chef of the Year, awarded with 3 hats.

Awarded 5 years in a row by the same guide with the title of "Table Original".

my work experience counts more than 30 years’ majority of which I spent in Europe, specifically in Portugal where I worked as a Head Chef at The Nikki Beach Portugal and later on as an Executive Chef at the Group NoSoloAgua.

Upon returning to Georgia I opened my group of restaurants “Chveni” in three different regions of the country, I joined the culinary TV program “My Kitchen Rules” and “War on the Kitchen” as a host and a judge and became an Executive Brand Chef at Vinotel.

What’s more, I was invited in Dubai as an Executive Brand Chef at “MODI” – first Georgian restaurant located at Sofitel Downtown.

Recently, I have co-founded different companies, including: Chveni Restaurant, Food & Market, New Sairme Restaurant , Georgian Gastro Tourism Business Association, Sairme Tourism and Gastronomic Academy, Daira Restaurant, Thai-Thai Restaurant, Oval Restaurant and more...

In Georgia and among my professional colleagues, they called me the Guardian of Georgian Cuisine

Last but not least, I am the only chef in Georgia (probably in the world too) who has worked for the Three presidents of Georgia & is Polyglot! I am fluent in seven languages:

Georgian, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian

For me, cooking is...

All my gastronomic creations are based on the roots of ancient traditional Georgian cuisine transformed into modern cuisine.

I learned to cook at...

I learned to cook from my grandmother and at the School of St. Petersburg and my last my last internship was at the 3-star Michelin El Cell D Can Roca